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A Very British Bomb

A fascinating account of the birth of the British nuclear program and the Anglo-US hostility it generated. Additionally, I have covered the testing of the first weapon in a previous article you can view here.

4 responses to “A Very British Bomb”

Very fascinating. I knew there was Anglo-US hostility over the project but I had no idea how deep it went. I enjoyed the joke about the Cambridge scientists mailing pieces of an atom bomb to Hitler for him to assemble